Nick Cave shares written tribute to Anita Lane

Lane's death was confirmed yesterday (28 April) by Louder Than War. As well as releasing solo music, Lane co-wrote songs for The Birthday Party ("A Dead Song", "Dead Joe" and "Kiss Me Black") and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, including "Stranger Than Kindness" and "From Her to Eternity".

On the latest post on Cave's The Red Hand Files Q+A site, the Australian musician has written about his memories of Lane, calling her the "smartest and most talented of all of us, by far".

Cave wrote of a memory of them drawing together at his kitchen table, and recalled that she was "charged with a rampant, unstable, fatal energy that would follow her all her life."

Later he added, "Everyone wanted to work with her but it was like trying to trap lightning in a bottle. Mick Harvey managed to coral her into the recording studio, but these precious offerings are a fraction of what she was."

He also noted that she wrote Cave's favourite Bad Seeds song "Stranger Than Kindness", and added, "Two months ago, speaking to her on the phone she seemed a million miles away. Loved her children more than anything. They were her pride and joy. It was both easy and terrifying to love her. Leaves a big, crying space."